#Cream of the Crop

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Why

Am

I

Not

Surprised~...

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... pfft

...

So Leona didn't know how to use a microwave? :3

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iconic

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My Spotify wrapped looks a little different this year…

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'I don't need handholding' Leona be so fr right now, the ghost left you alone for FIVE minutes and you ruined the Panna cotta 😭😭

[businessmemes]

Jarnson...what a guy.

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It’s that time again folks!

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Cream of the Crop

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Top 8 boxers in #daily wood stage two W-bracket

#1 Anton (100%, 14 votes)

Anton's cocky in every sense of the word, with the power to back up his taunts, and then some. In his own words, he gets off on knocking men unconscious, as his opponents can both confirm. He beat the absolute crap out of Felix before knocking him out, and pummeled Tuomas like a punching bag even after he was knocked out cold.

#2 Isko (88,8%, 16 votes)

The power puncher of the tournament, Isko's bouts now have twice as many paramedics on standby. His glancing blows send spit and sweat flying, and solid hits send men either clear across the ring like Samuel or through the ropes and out of the ring altogether like Ukko. Suffice to say when he sends you down, you aren't getting back up, and he's only ever lost one fight: knocked out by Robert during his mma debut.

#3 Jens (86,4%, 15 votes)

A bit of a wildcard, Jens seems to not to be content with just his domination of lesser men. After crushing the former champion, he almost seemed bored as he smacked Sauli and Elmo around. From his smile while watching the other top boxers when they step into the ring though, he seems to relish their brutality, biding his time until he can fight them himself to finally find out if any of them can take him.

#4 Valdemar (86,3%, 21 votes)

Another fighter who keeps the paramedics busy, Valdemar's brutal punches are powered as much by his rage as by his massive muscles. Not a single one of his past opponents hasn't had to be carried out on a stetcher, and Kauno and Simon were no exception. Even weakness seems to piss him off; not very good solace for his future opponents.

#5 Jan (85,9%, 18 votes)

The strength of Jan's unbridled aggression is only surpassed by his iron jaw. He doesn't seem to care whether his opponents hit him or not, all he's interested in is pounding them into submission. Based on how his bout with Aaron ended, he clearly also gets off on knocking men out cold, but Natanael barely lasted half as long. He's probably looking forward to facing Anton given their similar interests...

#6 Miika (83,8%, 11 votes)

Miika's another heavy hitter, though it's hard to compare closely with either Isko or Valdemar when all three send their opponents to sleep so quickly with their powerful punches. They'll probably be facing off soon enough, but unlike his previous two opponents, Verner and Ralf, next he's going to have to go through the former champion Ville...

#7 Henri (83,2%, 20 votes)

Henri's a man with a grudge, and unfortunately for his opponents, he's the type to take out his frustration by crushing anyone who gets in his way, as he savagely demonstrated with Mike and Touko. He's well on his way to a third rematch with his rival Ville, after the man knocked him unconscious both of the last two times they fought.

#8 Leo (82,6%, 14 votes)

Leo's aggression matches his rival Jan's. Fitting, given their history. Leo's actually got a little of everything going for him: Jens's drive to find a worthy opponent, a grudge to rival Henri's, power to rival Isko's, and a raging hardon for brutal knockouts like Anton... and Jan himself. After how he destroyed Johannes and Oliver, Jan had better get ready.

[drdamiang]

5 BEAUTIES

5 BEAUTIES: 5 poems of mine picked out as special by META AI

WITH APHRODITE

I held

a long interview with Aphrodite

peace

love

sex

these we touched upon

sinking ciders by the poolside

(wedge of lemon

jammed tightly into

the neck of the bottle)

in the course of which

frank and honest

and open-

ended discussion

the goddess revealed much

of her immortal self.

****

TROY

am

a reporter on the scene

at the siege

of Troy

rushing for a scoop, meet

my deadline

ask ancient poet

Homer what he saw

in such

vivid

inner colours

far

as the eye can see

****

PRODUCTION

on the farm,

perforce, we

put our heads together

everything under the Sun

puts is head together

wheels

set in

motion

as

word speads

and Heraclitus of Miletus

stops by

a number of things

brings to mind

solid argument inclusive: that

all is

twice, thrice,

there is nothing that

is not in process

meanwhile (forgive the inadvertent South African

colloquialism) not

back

at the ranch

but in the heart of Johannesburg

they are staging a production

of Euripides' The Bacchae

have

already

launched into

the opening scene

which very instant, being

in the audience my

mind

thirsting for

ecstasy

veers towards chaos, entropy,

fractal mathematics

as we suddenly welded into one

sift and exchange

that whole Pandora's box

of memories and

recollections

whispers and ghosts

the very

incantations that

pull aside the veil, strip

off the veneer

speaking for myself

but

perhaps all

hardly able to wait, kill

that terminal longing,

set eyes

upon the mask

that is

dark Dionysus' face

****

HOME

we spent all night

in my tiny room

on

the huge

farm

touching

loving

playing with

each other

retelling fairy tales

reciting

nursery rhymes

until

the cows would

come home

dawning upon us

the cows

would come home

the cows came home

home home home

****

GREEN

the rains

the rain

the rain

the rain

have given

the grass, the trees,

the plants

a lush edge

the green fingers of

the gods responsible

for green

have grown

greenier

and me

on the margins

liminal

as usual

feeling both oddly alien

and strangely at home

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the way harringrove and hellcheer are it for me

[auronevardell]

Looking for the recipe for the cream of the crop twisted wonderland event? I found them here

[housecow]

How amazing did it feel after a 10k meal? 🤭

nothing was on my mind more than the intense need to sleeeeeep 😭 getting up off the couch was so, so hard too… i couldn’t stand up unless my legs were spread wide to make room for my belly..

proof of me pinned down by my belly last night!!

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Can you tell who my favorite character is right now...